现在和当时一样,危机逐步恶化。甚至在马航MH17航班被击落之前,华盛顿就加大了对俄罗斯的制裁。上周,美国和欧盟全都采取进一步措施,对俄罗斯经济中的整个部门施加制裁,而不是仅仅针对个人和特定公司。经济制裁越严厉,俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔•普京(Vladimir Putin)就越有可能走投无路。实际上,西方现在正让普京面临选择,是屈从压力结束对分裂势力的支持,还是要确保他们不会被乌克兰政府军队击垮,从而加剧危机恶化。对于普京这样的人来说,第一个选项是不存在的。
The July crisis of 2017 therefore looks ominous. At the very least, the hope has now been dashed that a post-Soviet Russia could peacefully be integrated into a western world order based on free markets and democracy. At worst, what began as a little local difficulty in eastern Ukraine could be about to explode into a much larger struggle for mastery in Europe.
因此2017年7月的危机看起来是一个不祥之兆。最起码,苏联解体之后的俄罗斯和平融入建立在自由市场和民主基础之上的西方世界秩序的希望已经落空。而最坏的情况是,最初乌克兰东部一场小小的地方冲突,可能演变为一场规模大得多的争夺欧洲主导权的争斗。
So how to explain the relative equanimity of financial markets in the face of this gathering storm? Blame the historians. To those who subscribe to the view that the first world war had its origins in distinctive pathologies of early 20th-century Europe such as imperialism, militarism, nationalism and secret diplomacy, today’s crisis is nothing to worry about. For modern Europeans have renounced imperialism, have all but disarmed themselves, feel embarrassed by nationalism and conduct their diplomacy via Twitter rather than secret telegrams.
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